German Propaganda Footage showing Rescue of Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini- 22 September 1943
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- After Mussolini was removed from power in July 1943, he was imprisoned by the new Italian goverment on July 25th, 1943 and was held invarious locations, before being imprisoned at a remote hotel in the Gran Sasso Mountain range on orders of the new Italian Prime Minister, Badoglio.
The Germans intercepted radio messages which indicated Mussolini was held somewhere in the Gran Sasso Mountain range, and with the help of agents and informants, were able to locate the exact location.
Air Force General Kurt Student received an order to plan a rescue operation, and a group of SS-men and paratroopers, led by the notorious Otto Skorzeny, performed what is known as the Gran Sasso raid, officially named Operation Oak by the Germans, on September 12th.
This resulted in succesfully rescuing Mussolini and bringing him under German control. This raid became famous, and even the British Prime Minister Churchill called it “[…] a daring attack, completely beyond all foresight […]”
Although most of the operation was planned and carried out by paratroop units, German propaganda portrayed Skorzeny and the SS that took the most credit, the Gran Sasso Raid made Skorzeny famous even among foreign countries.
The following is German footage about the rescue of Mussolini and his following visit to Hitlers headquarter, shown in German propaganda newsreels on September 22nd, 1943.
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Remarks:
00:17 “Duce”, which is Italian for “leader” was the official title of Mussolini.
00:31 As shown here, most of the men that participated in the Gran Sasso Raid were paratroopers from the Staff, 1st and 2nd Company of the Paratroop-Lehr Battalion under the command of Major Harald Mors (see entry below).
00:38 This is Harald Mors (1910-2011) who planned and led the operation under direct orders of General Kurt Student. Born in Alexandria in Egypt, as his father was a police prefect under the Osmanian Governor of Egypt, his family fled to Switzerland in 1914 and then to Germany in 1922. He became an officer in the army and a pilot for Lufthansa in 1934, and joined the air force in 1935. In 1940, he joined the paratroopers and took part in the Battle of Crete and later fought, as a company commander of the 2nd Paratroop Lehr Division, on the Eastern Front. In 1943, he became commander of the elite Paratroop Lehr Battalion, and planned and led the operation to rescue Mussolini. Despite the fact that around 220 paratroopers and only 17 SS men took part in this operation, and it was completely planned and executed by Mors, German propaganda portrayed Skorzeny as the mastermind behind this operation. Mors received the German Cross in Gold for this operation, and held a staff position until January 1944, when he was transferred again to the Eastern Front. In March 1945, he was a staff officer in the 3rd Paratroop Division and became an American POW; he was released in September. He joined the post-war West German Army in 1955, and retired in 1965.
00:44 Mussolini was held on a remote hotel, the Hotel Campo Imperatore, and the only way to access it was a cable car, which was occupied by German paratroopers around 14:00 pm. The Italian soldiers and policemen guarding the area only offered little resistance, but two Italians were killed when they tried to warn the guards in the Hotel itself. These two Italians were the only casualties during the entire operation.
00:53 While the SD was involved in locating Mussolini, no SD-men actually took part in the raid itself.
00:56 From 13:05 to 13:10 pm, 72 Paratroopers, 17 SS-men, including Skorzeny and the Italian General Fernando Soleti (who was forced to come along to convince the Italian guards to not offer any resistance) took off with glider planes from a military airport south of Rome. Originally, it was planned to fly an extra curve around the airport, but not all pilots did this, so Skorzeny and his SS-men, which were supposed to be in the second wave, arrived first at the plateau with the Hotel at around 14:05 pm.
01:11 This is the Hotel Campo Imperatore, a hotel at an altitude of 2,130m in the Gran Sasso Mountain range, on top of the Campo Imperatore plateau. The hotel was built in 1934, the same year as the cable car station. It initially had 45 rooms, a bar and a swimming pool. Mussolini was held there from August 28th 1943 onwards under orders of the new Italian prime minister Badoglio. The hotel was open until 2018, when it was closed for renovations, it is unknown if it will ever be opened again.
01:24 The man on the right of Mussolini, with the mustache, is Italian Police General Fernando Soleti (1891-1971). He fought in WWI, transferred to the Italian Police between the wars, and became Inspector of the Police of Rome in early 1943. He participated in the arrest of Mussolini on July 25th, and afterwards briefly fought against the Germans who occupied Rome; he was then arrested by the SS. On the Gran Sasso raid, Soleti was forced by Skorzeny to accompany him, he ordered the Italian guards to stop firing, enabling a swift and smooth rescue of Mussolini. He was later released by the Germans, and remained in police service after the war until he retired in 1956.
01:38 Otto Skorzeny (1908-1975) was an infamous Austrian-born German SS officer, who participated in a number of special operations during WWII, the most famous probably being the removal of Hungarian regent Horthy from power in 1944, the Gran Sasso raid in 1943 and Operation Greif, a part of the Ardennes offensive where German soldiers infiltrated allied lines wearing American uniforms. As mentioned before, he was unfairly credited with the operation, which was planned and carried out almost completely by paratrooper units, but German propaganda highlighted his role and portrayed him as the “rescuer of the Duce”. However, Skorzeny did a lot of preparation for the raid, it was reconnaissance provided by the SS, including agents and Italian informants that located Mussolini on the Gran Sasso hotel in the first place.
01:50 At around 14:30 pm, paratroopers began to arrive at the hotel via cable car.
02:10 The Fieseler Fi 156 Storch was a German liaison aircraft, introduced in 1937 and built until the end of WWII. Around 2,900 were made. It had excellent STOL capacity, a low stalling speed of only 50km/h. These characteristics made it excellent to use in the raid, as the “runway” was only very short.
02:32 The start of the machine was made very difficult because Skorzeny demanded to be on the same plane as Mussolini- which meant that there were three people on the plane, Skorzeny, Mussolini and the pilot. While the Fiesler Storch was a three seater plane, the high starting altitude of 2,100 m and the short runway meant that this was a daring undertake, the pilot initially refused to start with three men, but Skorzeny forced him to, and the take-off succeeded.
02:43 At around 15:38 pm, the plane landed at the same military airport south of Rome were the operation started.
02:59 Mussolini transferred to a German Heinkel-He 111, which brought him to Vienna, where he stayed the night.
03:11 Indeed, the rescue of Mussolini shocked the Allies- who were in the process of having him extradited to the UK. Churchill called it “[…] a daring attack, completely beyond all foresight […]” in his speech in the House of Commons.
03:35 Mussolini met Hitler on September 14th, two days after his liberation, in Hitlers headquarter in East Prussia.
03:50 Vittorio Mussolini (1916-1997) was the second child of Mussolini, but the first one officially acknowledged. He served as a bomber pilot in the Italian air force, taking part in the invasion of Ethopia, the Spanish Civil War and WWII. He became a film critic in the 1930s and 1940s, publishing the film journal Cinema. He also produced his own movies during that time. When his father was removed from power in July 1943, he fled to Germany, where he formed a provisional fascist government, and broadcasted Italian propaganda speeches. After the formation of the Italian Socialist Republic, he became head of his fathers secretaries. He fled Italy for Argentina on April 16th, 1945, taking with him dozens of tons of gold from the Bank of Italy. He lived in Argentina until 1967, when he returned to Italy, where died in 1997.
04:02 This is Mussolini’s personal standard during his time as Prime Minister of Italy from 1925 to 1943. It shows a golden Fasces symbol on a blue background with a gold edging.
04:06 This is Hitlers personal standard.
05:15 Actually, Mussolini told Hitler that he wanted to retire from politics, but Hitler forced him to go back to Italy and form a new fascist government to continue the war at Germanys side. Mussolini resigned to his new fate, that of being the prime minister of what essentially amounted to a German puppet state in Northern Italy.
For Mussolini, one of the most powerful man in the world just a few months before, being carried around like a trophy by the Germans was more than humiliating.
No wonder if we think that this video just shows was Mussolini was, always, in world's history, THE SECOND ONE, always behind others, specially behind Hitler.
By that point he stated that he wanted out but was powerless to act against the Axis.
bro what
@@simoli516 yeah mussolini was one of the first leader in Europe to ask for a coalition against the rising power of the reich, but as france and britain wasn't interrested and later sactionned italy for it's invasion of Ethiopia, Mussolini sided with the germans
2:25 The look on Benito's face when he is in the Storch! Skorzeny insisted on flying out and he was a big man, with him on board the plane was seriously overloaded.
Rescued and then possibly dying in a plane crash shows on his face.
@@389383 No, it's the fact that this meant he would be 'reinstated'. Flying towards his doom ...
you just made that stuff up for internet points
5:27 propaganda overload 😅
I'm not sure he was worried about the plane. He had probably resigned to his fate and was just happy the war was over for him and now he's being hauled to face Hitler to become Hitler's hand puppet, head of a meaningless proxy state. The man was a lot of things but unlike Hitler, he wasn't irretrievably stupid. He knew the war was over and I think he probably figured he would have been better off where he was.
Hitler was actually appalled at Mussolinis diminished appearance. Quite a juxtaposition with the imposing Duce at Munich with the hapless Chamberlain.
Though Hitler was a living dead atthis time too
Franco was the smart one. He knew better. His regime lasted another thirty years.
Everyone sleeps on Salazar that made a deal with Franco (knowing the Germans could invade the Azores and Portugal, using Spain) to not enter the war and a defensive alliance, as Franco also feared a Anglo American invasion using Portugal. Of them all, who played better was Salazar that was even the only on democratic founding member of NATO in western Europe.
But Franco also was smart, but who knows if Hitler give him what he wanted, if he would join.
Once Russia had been defeated I would imagine Franco then would have openly joined the Axis (i mean German sub bases on Las Palmas , Grand Canary and all is covertly being Axis)@@gordusmaximus4990
@@gordusmaximus4990 In my opinion, Franco asked exactly the things that Hitler could'nt give to Spain, i.g. : the whole French colony (Protectorate, they called it) of Morocco, an insane amount of grain, when Germany was struggling for giving supplies to the Whermacht, etc. In fact, Hitler said later "I would prefer to get two teeth pulled out rather than talk again to Franco". Franco was a Mussolini admirer, not so much a Hitler's one - for Franco, a little bit like for the Prussian junkers, he was a corporal overacting like a general-. And, curiously, Salazar and Franco, in despite of the deal that allowed both to survive very well 30 more years, felt some mutual disdain, because Salazar was a university professor and Franco was a renowned general, and both saw in the other an image of their internal enemies, the armed forces in Portugal and the Universities in Spain.
@@alfonsoherguetagomez1821 this was not an exaggeration; by that time Hitler actually had about two of his teeth left (his jaw is kept in Moscow)
Witnesses report that, when the Duce saw his "liberators" arriving, he exclaimed something like "damn!". It seems he was not at all happy to return among the Germans.
He didn’t look very happy in the film. Must’ve felt conflicted. He was basically being transferred as a prisoner of Italy to a defacto prisoner of Germany, as he wouldn’t be allowed to leave the failing nation.
Mussolini declared in his testament:
"I am a prisoner since the day the King ordered to arrest me".
He would've prefered to just leave the scene after the Gran Consiglio deposed him.
Unfortunately he was "constricted" to accept the RSI chief of state position in order to do the possible to at least limit the brutality of Germans against the Italians.
Honestly as a Italian I don't blames Germans neither, they got an ally that surrendered after ASSURING them that we won't and instead we would've fought with them.
@@matteoclementiyeah, both the duce and the Germans were in an impossible position
then he was beaten to a pulp a couple of years later@@matteoclementi
He also makes this impression that he knows that now he will die with the German Reich
Bonito had a thousand yard stare at this point in the war.
Mussolini's looks pretty much said everything .
They prob gave him some pervatin and it was just kicking in
His captors had no proper pizza etiquette.
Militarily, it was an astonishing feat.I read long back-Standing before Hitler in Rastenburg,East Prussia was S.S captain Otto Skorjeny,chief of the top secret school for training agents every skill, from self defence to sabotage and now he learned that he was going into the field himself. Hitler told him emotionally-Mussolini,my loyal friend and comrade in arms was betrayed yesterday by his king and arrested by his own countrymen. I can't leave Italy's greatest son in the lurch. He must be rescued promptly or he would be handed over to the Allies. Next day Skorjeny left for his momentous mission with his 17 handpicked men,all Italian speaking.
It was German para operation. Skorzeny was just Mussolini's bodyguard.
In the book "Generaloberst Kurt Student und seine Fallschirmjäger“, Kurt Student, who planned the commando operation, describes how the misjudgment came about that Skorzeny freed Mussolini.
It was 100% a fake operation:
King Vittorio Emanuele II “sold” Mussolini to the germans in order to escape safe from Rome to the southern allied-controlled part of Italy (to Pescara and then Brindisi).
Few guards have been left to control Mussolini, and without guns, to make the fake “liberation” easy.
And Mussolini wasn’t enthusiast at all to be “liberated” by the germans, cause he became their puppet. He knew that, and he accepted his puppet role only to avoid a revange of the germans against the italian population, cause King Vittorio Emanuele signed the armistice (8th september) and Italy surrended to the Allies
@@timoaksel9320 Skorzeny himself led the operation, it is detailed in his memoirs. The man saw a lot of action and enjoyed it.
@@rohanbansal2324 Wrong, Hitler commissioned the paratrooper general Student to find and free Mussolini. Since he personally did not have the time to look for Mussolini, he asked Hitler to allow Skorzeny to be involved in this operation. However, the report that Mussolini was most likely on the Gran Sasso came from the police attache at the German embassy in Rome. The confirmation came from the squadron captain of the naval aviation squadron assigned to Genral Student for the liberation operation. General Student now planned the liberation operation completely independently and did not inform Hitler. He assigned Captain Langguth in an He111 to carry out aerial reconnaissance. General Student decided to carry out the liberation on September 12th. He also decided to determine and command all the details of the operation himself. He commissioned the paratrooper battalion under the leadership of Major Mors to carry it out. Mors personally carried out the coup against the valley station of the cable car in Assergi. Major Mors appointed First Lieutenant Freiherr von Berlepsch and his paratroopers as the leader for the operation on the Campo Imperatore. First Lieutenant von Berlepsch was responsible for breaking any possible resistance and carrying out the liberation smoothly. Skorzeny served as a police force for the Duce's personal protection and was supposed to accompany him to Germany after the liberation. Because Hitler was unaware of the details of the planning and execution of the operation, he mistakenly assumed that Skorzeny had freed Mussolini. In his enthusiasm, he immediately and unjustifiably awarded Skorzeny the Knight's Cross without an examination. In order not to expose Hitler, this version of the story was stuck to during the war.
He looks spent.
He probably was, he had to know that at best he would now be a german puppet and the worst case...well one can read about that in the history books.
I have a feeling that ol Benito would have rather stayed a prisoner. He was already seeing the writing on the wall.
@BELCAN57 I agree. Remember mussolini was reluctant to declare war on Britain and France.
He was happy to invade Greece.. and had to be bailed out by Germany.
@@vanaik Not really, Greece was starving due to the Italian blockade. If it wasn't for Yugoslavian affairs or British intervention, Greece would have been forced into peace with Italians
Mussolini giving the "I can't with this shit anymore" vibe is kinda sad ngl, dude would probably rather be hand over to the allies
he never really wanted the war because Italy wasn't industrialised yet. Mussolini thought Hitler was batshit insane and would ruin the concept of fascism. Italy also nearly went to war with Germany after Germany annexed Austria.
@@norfangl3480 they both would later reconcile after their disputes however. You’re right about the industrialization, not to mention that Italy’s economy, despite being fascist was scarcely spent on militarization. This explains their poor performance more than anything else
@@norfangl3480 He went against AH wishes and sent men into Greece forcing the Germans to stall Operation Barbarossa several months.
Italy also didn’t enter the conflict until after the defeat of France (Joined the war on their own terms and not Germanys)
@@norfangl3480 Musolini chose Hitler over his own people, Balblo told him as much, hence why he died.
@@Erich__88 I have heard a few times that the reason Italy was so unprepared was because Mussolini didn't think the war would start in 1939 and rather somewhere around 1941, So the army didn't have much time to prepare.
Been looking all over for this footage
Thank you for this upload
Propaganda was at work here giving the SS the main credit in the rescue of Mussolini by Otto Skorzeny. The reality is that it was the Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjager who were the mastermind and prominent players in this commando operation under the command of General Student. Heinrich Himmler had a hand into making sure his SS were the "shining knights" of this rescue, which was truly an astounding operation.
Skorzeny planned it, soldiers just did their casual job
In the book "Generaloberst Kurt Student und seine Fallschirmjäger“, Kurt Student, who planned the commando operation, describes how the misjudgment came about that Skorzeny freed Mussolini.
So what? Dr. Magnus Pahl precisely pointed out the Nazi corps mentality in the Fallschirmjäger‘s elite formations.
Yeah, I'm actually reading a book about SS and its importance in the reich and it seems that the Schutzstaffel were infiltrated in every important corner of the government so I don't doubt that they got credit for everything since they also infiltrated the Ministry of Propaganda even though Goebbels wasn't alright with it
Something on the technical side: The footage that was actually taken during the raid, e.g. before 2:38 in the video, was most likely taken on a 16mm camera, as these were smaller and more handy than the large 35mm standard film cameras, and it would be too cumbersome to bring along a proper movie camera on such a special mission.
Thats why the footage looks a bit less detailled in the first part, because 16mm had a worse quality than 35mm.
In his book "Special Missions", Skorzeny states that glider #8 was crashed in failed attempt for landing near Monte Imperatore. But is unclear if this implies German fatal casualties.
It demonstrates what extreme importance propaganda had in the eyes of the governing ones. That they took a camera on a mission where every and each saved kilogram counts...
I know propaganda is important, but is still wild that they brought a camera to a super secret mission
Major Mors organised the whole thing, but due to Goerings ill favour ,the fallschirmjager, whose operation it was, were sidelined. Great channel
I had read that Scorzeny, although having being summoned by Hitler and told to plan the rescue just joined an existing effort by the German paratroopers. He ensured that he flew out with the Duce in an aircraft meant for two and thus ensured his name was attached to this achievement.
This quality is superb!
You are doing a great job.
I would like to thank you separately for the subtitles for the videos.
'Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire!"..He Looks rather like a Rabbit Caught in the Headlights of a Car ! ..
If Mussolini could foresee his coming fate, he would've been much better off not being rescued.
I'm not sure he wanted to be 'rescued', but he didn't have much choice.
@@captainhurricane5705 True.
I'm sure the Allies would have hanged him.
@@captainhurricane5705You think it was so comfortable to be held prisoner by his opponents😅? Why would he object to being freed?
@@karlheven8328 Mussolini didnt want to return to active politics, he was severely depressed at that point, but Hitler forced him to head a German puppet state. Mussolini wasnt "freed", he was merely transfered from one prison to another. (Seriously, the SS had him under house arrest for most of the time he was chief of the Italian Social Republic).
The change in quality from the raid to post raid footage is pretty stark. I'm guessing the first half is 16mm, it looks similar quality to my own 16mm captures, and the other is 35mm.
Thanks For Sharing, Awesome Remarks.
Vielen Dank ❤
Footage and music mix is superb (as is usual in German propaganda), especially on Hitler-Mussolini meet coverage.
4:12 Here is Joachim Von Ribbentrop the foreign minister, still disputed today if he deserved the death penalty the mans last words were
"I will see you again" he said to his executioner before being hanged
How about some English translation captions, please ?
What if the Internet was available in this era?
"Hi, if you enjoyed the Reichs rescue of El Duce, hit like and subscribe."
"Axis bros, we're so back!"
"Free Albania!"
"The German massacres are fake news! We're acting in self-defence!"
"Petain uploaded a video!
-I apologize
와, 이런 영상이 있다니...
This is historical gold. Algorithm gonna hit this up pretty soon!
That thumbnail is the last thing I’ll see before I die 😂. Interesting to see though
Skorzeny making sure he’s on every picture:
There is an interesting film of Skorzeny being interrogated at the end of the war, which is worth a look.
Там нечего смотреть . Отто Скорцени работал на английскую разведку. Все тогда понимали , что Рейху осталось недолго .
Is it online?
Mussolini was by this time a broken and totally discredited man who knew his political mission was well and truly over.
There are a few things that are worthy to be mentioned here: according to the memories, in the top of the hotel where Mussolini was kept as prisoner, there were originally some powerful Breda anti-aircraft machine guns. Somebody called from Prefettura di Roma to the garnison of the hotel, the night before the raid, telling to remove those machine guns from the top...
There is evidence that both in Rome and in the garnison (the chief?) there were people interested in his liberation.
When the German paratroopers faced the Carabinieri in the entrance of the hotel, guns-to-guns, there was an unbelieveable minute of silence, during which both formations were looking to the other's eyes, to see if they were ready to kill and being killed.
The Italian soldiers and Carabinieri in the top didn't want to die for Mussolini, and delivered him seamless to the German paratroopers.
While, according to the historians, a man from Guardia di Finanza, in the bottom of the mountain, trying to stop the German column, was the first victim of the "Resistenza" movement after the collapse of Fascist regime.
Paratrooper on the far right side at 1:03 is holding what looks to be an early model FG-42
This was actually the first time FG42s were used in a combat operation, even though a shot wasn’t fired
0:43 those boys look like they’ve seen some things and they’re running out of patience for this war.
Duce looks like he just saw a ghost. Lol. I heard the getaway plane just nosedived off a cliff to gain enough speed to gain altitude and the plane almost crashed. I think Duce was rather content where he was😂
I had seen part of this video in the beginning in the movie: "The eagle has landed"
Everybody seems to grin right through the rather awkward reality that Mussolini had to be rescued from his own people. This could have been a clue how things were going to go.
When your action is so good even the enemy's leader has to acknowledge it in their own parliament!
Otto Skorzeny was a madman
Did Hitler speak Italian and Mussolini speak German? It looks like they were conversing for a moment.
The Duce spoke German, there are speeches from him in german
he didn't want to be rescued
It was an astonishing Commando feat and raid by German Army..
Skorzeny had some set of balls. He even worked for the Israelis in the 1950s I understand,
Mussolini smiling through an utter humiliation
What language did they speak to each other in?
In German,Mussolini spoke it pretty well.
@@Karl-nv5ok There's even a video of Mussolini giving a speech in German.
Mussolini spoke Italian, German, English and French. At the Munich conference he was able to translate for a lot of the Heads of State present. Mussolini was arguably a fool, but he was far from stupid.
@@michaelporzio7384to be fair, memorizing multiple languages doesn’t necessarily mean someone is smart. However i don’t doubt that Mussolini was in fact smart.
@@StephenLukeYes, in Munich, 1938. If i am not wrong.
Hitler did not abandon him, but Benito was already done. The bravado in him was gone already and he was an empty shell on two legs.
Looks like Il Duce was not held very tightly... He seems to take being liberated as perfectly a normal day. Uncle Adolf seems a bit nonplussed however.
By this time, the Battle of Kursk was lost, Sicily was lost, Italy invaded.... And Hitler still showed his admiration for Benito. Both men had to have seen the walls closing in, but could find no way out other than to cling to each other.
2:49 one of the rare images of Mussolini wearing civilian sunglasses.
The war was already lost.....
He had only less than two years to live.......
Those guys sure loved saluting each other.
I thought it took 2 stork's the 1st one conked out?
The only time I’ve ever seen him smiling is in the thumbnail lol
Theres a picture of him smiling with Italo Balbo
3:56 man in the background used wrong arm to salute in front of Hitler and Mussolini
Just finished Skorzenys memories what a tale
그 작전에 '유럽에서 가장 위험한 사나이'가 있었다.
Sad how Skorzeny took almost all credit while almost jeopardizing the mission.
Paratroopers did all thr work, Skorzy just walked in with his SS and walked out with Duce.. plain for takeoff was really short, plane used and shown in vid was a two seater - for pilot and Duce. But Skorzy insisted on joining, so he would be shown alongside Duce once they arrive to Berlin
Just boys having fun.
Germany be like:Now that we rescued him what do we do with him?
1:21 Benito has a look that says he knows he is now a puppet.
Then he ended up hanging around a gas station!
Ok, the Italians were good......but, they failed their allies so many times. There is glory in a valiant end.
My grandfather said about the Italian soldiers: They were handsome, but they couldn't fight!😅
@@tobilinoooin Russia the Alpini division Tridentina was the only unbeaten one.
They resisted for 30 days to the never ending attacks by the Soviet army.
During the nights instead of resting the scouts accomplished several fight missions behind enemy lines to rescue food and weapons to keep on fighting the next days.
After 30 days of such a fight the headquarters ordered their withrawal, their covering goal was accomplished and the Italian army had a chance to escape from the Russian encirclement thanks to this sacrifice.
It was a masterpiece by Otto Skorzeny to get Mussolini out without a shot being fired.
3:05 A Bf-110?
He-111
@@wjlasloThe2nd Danke/Merci/Gracias/Thanks!
Cool to see a couple bros reunited.
Boy, El Duce was El Domce
il duce not el duce .
Poor man
He has go hell!
Benito is NOT enjoying his new freedom
For those who wonder whether Mussolini spoke German: there is another video on this channel, proving it: ua-cam.com/video/JYVY6oycQAQ/v-deo.html
There are some minor syntactical and grammatical mistakes in his words. And that speaks in favour of his capacities. He would probably speak 100 percent correct German if he just read some paper prepared by a professional interpreter.
ハラルト＝オットー・モルス（Harald-Otto Mors、1910年11月18日 - 2001年2月11日）
オットー・ヨハン・アントン・スコルツェニー（Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny、1908年6月12日 - 1975年7月6日）は、ドイツの軍人、武装親衛隊隊員。最終階級は親衛隊中佐。
Never knew this happened. I am assuming he did take control back before he got hung!
Otto Skorzeny bad ass, pulled that mission off.
there was no confrontation with the Italian side . the rescuers just walk in and walk out .
Holy shit was that the most dangerous man in Europe
Nippon News NO.193
Give this man a pizza 🍕
Why didnt his captors kill him before he was rescued? Why would the allies allow this!
He was held prisoner by the new Italian government that was still fascist
Little did the little goose-stepper know, he'd be dead in 18 months.
He knew
And the rest is History…
he was trying to flee with the wealth, and was brought back. then beaten to death a couple of years after.
Mussolini wasn’t beaten to death. They shot him before defiling his corpse
I think this footage is from a Wochenschau rather than separate footage.
Yes, it is from a German Newsweek. I have never claimed that it is seperate footage.
Skorzeny the conman, Mussolini's liberation wasn't an his operation
Bro got freed and walked out like a pimp god damn
Italians simply have drip, most Italian mechanics I saw had a better sense of fashion than German businessmen
4:03 Mercedes ❤
Hi weakness for the Brits and the Italians was one of his greater mistakes in this war.
Alf doesn't look impressed
Old friends, Adolf and Benito!
残念ですが
イタリア軍は
いらない
From JAPAN
Gran bel video sulla liberazione del Duce! Complimenti! 👍👏
Deux grands criminels ...
"leaderism" always leads to a national catastrophe and deadly misfortunes for neighboring peoples.
Well said!
He just wanted a pizza
Or he witnessed improper pizza etiquette.
Mussolini was an arrogant dictator who in the end got what he deserved from the Italian people.
He looks sickly
Italy should have been like Spain during World War II, a country that, yes, has affiliation with Germany but is not allied with Germany to the point of joining a war that even the country's own ruler knows they will not win.
Still, Italy tried.
The higher they fly, the harder they fall.
For the sake of precision, although Mussolini and Hitler were total opposites, Fascism was born in Italy and all the right-wing regimes based on that, including Nazism, followed suit.
Italians have a heavy historical responsibility to acknowledge, and they did not really came to terms with it, in my humble opinion.
Did they also rescue his spaghetti meatballs?
So Hitler in these shots had just missed getting blown to bits by the July 20th conspirators, almost the same day.
Skorzeny non fu il vero comandante dell'operazione quercia ma bensì un ufficale dei paracadutisti che ora non mi viene in mente ma presente nel filmato
Vero, l'operazione fu organizzata dal generale della Luftwaffe Kurt Student e l'azione venne pianificata dal Maggiore Harald Mors
In the book "Generaloberst Kurt Student und seine Fallschirmjäger“, Kurt Student, who planned the commando operation, describes how the misjudgment came about that Skorzeny freed Mussolini.